Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 2 | As she was pressed back on to the couch her mind raced madly in protest , but all she managed to bring out in a kind of croak was , ‘ No , Daddy , no . ’ |
| 3 | At least , she was venturing out on to the verandah of the Mackenzie farm steading on most days and lay in the shade , making an endless succession of crocheted table covers and mats . |
| 4 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 5 | Liam was helped up on to the driving seat by an even grumpier Den and the two women and the reins put into his hand . |
| 6 | The 70-year-old woman , who has not been named , was coming out on to the A67 from Piercebridge when her car stalled . |
| 7 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 8 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 9 | Yussuf was pitched off on to the other side . |
| 10 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 11 | After her coat was thrown down on to the couch , to be followed by the long mud-fringed skirt and tattered voluminous blouse , there appeared before the child a fat woman , a very fat woman , in what seemed to be a clean blue-striped blouse and a long grey skirt with a fringe . |